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post #5521 of 5998
7/15/09 at 11:48am
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Originally Posted by hdtvluvr View Post

Well, I see that channel 10 also goes from 100 (picture) to 40 or below and no picture. So in essence you loose 5, 10 and 13 between the 2 tuners. ....

NOTE: The TV MENU shows the RF channel numbers (i.e. 10.1= RF 29) so it appears to have the same signal strenghts as 5 and 13

Also I have the antenna pointed @ 270°, due west.
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post #5522 of 5998
7/15/09 at 11:48am
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Originally Posted by Slolearner View Post

Do you have a VIP622 receiving WMC-5 and WHBQ-13 OTA?

No, I have DirecTV. I didn't get 5 and 13 after the switch until I did a rescan.
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post #5523 of 5998
7/15/09 at 11:49am
Boy, was I ever picking up the Memphis Market here in Yell county Arkansas last night....bout 300 miles....not bad. I was getting WREG 3.1 , WMC 5.1 & WKNO10.1 at about 70-85%. Kept them most of the night. Here is a link to some screen shots of my Dxing last night. Pulled these in on a Winegard 8200 w/cm7777. Antenna is only about 18 feet high but for some reason thats my "hot spot". I've had it up 40+ before and never had the reception I do at 18 feet. If any of you want, check out your channels on my TV in the Little Rock thread
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post #5524 of 5998
7/16/09 at 3:41pm
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Originally Posted by Slolearner View Post

FYI, I'm unable to receive channels 5 or 13 OTA (attic mount Philips SDV7400K/17 UHF/VHF/FM/HDTV) through a Dishnetwork VIP622 reciever.

Dish's tech support say they are working on these channels but I was curious if anyone else was having this same problem?

I am in Tipton County and I receive both OTA great on my VIP622.

In your signal strength post, you don't list 5 or 13. Both are transmitting on their VHF frequencies now. Sounds like you didn't get a good rescan.
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post #5525 of 5998
8/16/09 at 9:08am
New article in the CA about U-Verse coming soon!

http://www.commercialappeal.com/news...vision-market/
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post #5526 of 5998
8/17/09 at 8:04am
According to the MBJ this morning:

"AT&T will officially unveil its U-Verse advanced television product in Memphis starting Monday."
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post #5527 of 5998
8/17/09 at 9:37am
I just had a new receiver installed by D* yesterday. Arghhhh!
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post #5528 of 5998
8/17/09 at 10:35am
Just went by the AT&T store on Hacks Cross Road. They are selling U-verse, but don't have it for display. They looked up my address in Collierville, and said service wasn't available yet. And, no indication of when it will be.

Anyone got U-verse yet in Memphis>
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post #5529 of 5998
8/17/09 at 12:16pm
I looked up 38135 (Bartlett) and mine comes up...
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post #5530 of 5998
8/17/09 at 12:35pm
I looked up my address in midtown today and it's not available here yet either.
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post #5531 of 5998
8/17/09 at 2:06pm
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Originally Posted by Gary*w* View Post

I looked up my address in midtown today and it's not available here yet either.

I looked up my zip in Walls, MS (just outside Memphis) and it shows available...
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post #5532 of 5998
8/18/09 at 11:58pm
SSh, dont tell anyone, but at least Comcast will have some competition:

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Originally Posted by JimboG View Post

Verizon rebuilt their infrastructure to provide truly state of the art, nearly limitless bandwidth with fiber to the premises (FTTP). When newer, faster switches and wave division multiplexers become available, Fios can increase bandwidth significantly without replacing fiber lines.

AT&T on the other hand tried to do things on the cheap. They designed a system that squeezes the last ounce of performance out of legacy thin copper wires. U-Verse will go from 2 HD-Lite streams to 3 even worse looking HD-Lite streams by cranking up the compression. The results are not pretty.

AT&T's strategy was penny wise, pound foolish. They have lower capital expenditures up front. However, the bulk of the cost of a system rebuild is not copper thin wire or fiber optic cable, it is the labor cost to do the project in the first place. U-Verse is built in such a way that it almost guarantees that AT&T will have to tear out lines and completely rebuild their network again in 5 - 12 years. Verizon on the other hand can simply replace switching equipment at the node and place more capable modems in consumers' homes as needed. Verizon already has laid fiber that can fulfill foreseeable bandwidth demands for the next 20 or 30 years.

http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/showt...0#post17002640
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post #5533 of 5998
8/19/09 at 6:03am
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Originally Posted by locomo View Post

SSh, dont tell anyone, but at least Comcast will have some competition:

http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/showt...0#post17002640

Verison FiOS is in Memphis ???
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post #5534 of 5998
8/19/09 at 8:18am
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Originally Posted by Kfcosby View Post

Verison FiOS is in Memphis ???

No, it was just a link to another post.

Fios would be very nice here.
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post #5535 of 5998
8/19/09 at 2:48pm
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Originally Posted by mx6bfast View Post

No, it was just a link to another post.

Fios would be very nice here.

Agreed !!
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post #5536 of 5998
8/20/09 at 11:41pm
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Originally Posted by mx6bfast View Post

No, it was just a link to another post.

Fios would be very nice here.

You phrased it much better than myself.
It's definitely not Fios, but anything to get Comcast a little worried, has got to be a good thing.
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post #5537 of 5998
9/7/09 at 6:44am
Anyone in this area received the update from D* to enable DoublePlay (dual live buffers)?
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post #5538 of 5998
9/7/09 at 11:38am
No, still waiting....very much wanting.
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post #5539 of 5998
9/8/09 at 10:53am
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Originally Posted by HDTV_Duffus View Post

Anyone in this area received the update from D* to enable DoublePlay (dual live buffers)?

Still waiting....

Here's a short video on DoublePlay

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Jb87jiFE7c

Kevin
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post #5540 of 5998
9/14/09 at 11:05am
For the last couple of months, the primary camera angle for baseball and now football looks like it's shot in a different frame rate on Fox HD. It stutters, like every few frames is being dropped. Anybody else been seeing this? Anybody from Fox 13 know anything? I'm using a SA 8300HD on Comcast.

Thanks.
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post #5541 of 5998
9/14/09 at 11:48am
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Originally Posted by ScottPo View Post

For the last couple of months, the primary camera angle for baseball and now football looks like it's shot in a different frame rate on Fox HD. It stutters, like every few frames is being dropped. Anybody else been seeing this? Anybody from Fox 13 know anything? I'm using a SA 8300HD on Comcast.

Are you talking about something like in this thread, http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/showt...php?t=1163878? Personally I haven't seen it, but I haven't payed close attention to the sporting events on FOX.
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post #5542 of 5998
9/14/09 at 1:14pm
Hello all,

I live in Hernando, MS (zip 38632) about 25 miles south of Memphis, TN. I have a HR22 receiver with an AM21 for my OTA signals. I mounted a "Winegard HD-1080 2-Bay Bowtie UHF - High Band VHF Antenna (HD-1080)" in my attic but I am only receiving a limited number of OTA signals. My channels 3(cbs), 10 18(pbs), 24(abc), 40(tbn), 50(ion) all come in very well. Unfortunately, my channels 5(nbc), and 13(fox) do not come in at all.

Is there any way I can add another antenna to work together with my existing to pick up my missing channels? If so, do I use some kind of a splitter?

Or, should I invest in a different antenna altogether?

Thanks.

-My zip code is 38632
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post #5543 of 5998
9/15/09 at 4:51am
Got the dlb software update overnight.
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post #5544 of 5998
9/15/09 at 6:03am
Hi Bill

The bowtie antenna is good for UHF signals. You would have been able to receive channels 5 and 13 before "the big switch" because they were broadcasting on their temporary UHF channels. Now they have switched back to the VHF assignments, so you will need a multi-band antenna to receive 5 & 13.

Hope this helps!

Kevin

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Originally Posted by billclay View Post

Hello all,

I live in Hernando, MS (zip 38632) about 25 miles south of Memphis, TN. I have a HR22 receiver with an AM21 for my OTA signals. I mounted a "Winegard HD-1080 2-Bay Bowtie UHF - High Band VHF Antenna (HD-1080)" in my attic but I am only receiving a limited number of OTA signals. My channels 3(cbs), 10 18(pbs), 24(abc), 40(tbn), 50(ion) all come in very well. Unfortunately, my channels 5(nbc), and 13(fox) do not come in at all.

Is there any way I can add another antenna to work together with my existing to pick up my missing channels? If so, do I use some kind of a splitter?

Or, should I invest in a different antenna altogether?

Thanks.

-My zip code is 38632
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post #5545 of 5998
9/15/09 at 6:04am
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Originally Posted by mx6bfast View Post

Got the dlb software update overnight.

Good news, I'll have to check when I get home !

Thanks for the heads up !!!

Kevin
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post #5546 of 5998
9/15/09 at 7:20am
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Originally Posted by Kfcosby View Post

Good news, I'll have to check when I get home !

Thanks for the heads up !!!

No problem. 2 easy ways to tell are: When you turn on the HD-DVR it wasn't already buffered, or when you click Menu you have an option for TVMAIL.
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post #5547 of 5998
9/15/09 at 7:21am
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Originally Posted by billclay View Post

Hello all,

I live in Hernando, MS (zip 38632) about 25 miles south of Memphis, TN. I have a HR22 receiver with an AM21 for my OTA signals. I mounted a "Winegard HD-1080 2-Bay Bowtie UHF - High Band VHF Antenna (HD-1080)" in my attic but I am only receiving a limited number of OTA signals. My channels 3(cbs), 10 18(pbs), 24(abc), 40(tbn), 50(ion) all come in very well. Unfortunately, my channels 5(nbc), and 13(fox) do not come in at all.

Is there any way I can add another antenna to work together with my existing to pick up my missing channels? If so, do I use some kind of a splitter?

You can add a VHF-only antenna to the mix (if you have the room in your attic!). You will want to get a band combiner (the same thing as a band splitter, but put in backwards) to put both VHF and UHF on the same coax without distorting the signal. Just using a regular combiner (splitter) will cause problems with both signals. The band combiner should have a VHF connector, and UHF connector and a combined connector.

Although using two different antennas can be a pain, it does have the advantage of allowing you to point them in different directions to avoid reflections that may be in different locations on VHF and UHF.
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post #5548 of 5998
9/15/09 at 8:15am
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Originally Posted by mx6bfast View Post

Are you talking about something like in this thread,(link deleted) personally I haven't seen it, but I haven't payed close attention to the sporting events on FOX.

Yes, that's exactly what I'm talking about. Thanks for the link. Unfortunately, after 10 pages nobody seems to know for sure what's going on. Is there still a Fox13 tech hanging out around here?
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post #5549 of 5998
9/15/09 at 8:36am
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Originally Posted by ScottPo View Post

Yes, that's exactly what I'm talking about. Thanks for the link. Unfortunately, after 10 pages nobody seems to know for sure what's going on. Is there still a Fox13 tech hanging out around here?

DTV Dave right above your post is the engineer at WHBQ.
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post #5550 of 5998
9/15/09 at 9:08am
I noticed this "studdering" last night watching House OTA on my HR-20...


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Originally Posted by ScottPo View Post

For the last couple of months, the primary camera angle for baseball and now football looks like it's shot in a different frame rate on Fox HD. It stutters, like every few frames is being dropped. Anybody else been seeing this? Anybody from Fox 13 know anything? I'm using a SA 8300HD on Comcast.

Thanks.
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